The realtime web is overwhelming us with information. Search is not social. RSS is a broken promise. Twingly Channels brings a revolution to these three areas.
A Twingly Channel acts as a social filter on top of feeds and realtime search, allowing you to set up a social memetracker for any topic or event. The underlying idea is that by aggregating feeds and realtime search results into a channel where many people sharing the same interest can discuss and vote on the content (while also providing a filter to solve the prevalent problem of information overflow) we lower the learning curve to the realtime web.
Twingly Channels provides instant user value without the user having to spend time finding the right people to follow. Following topics rather than individuals, you immediately tap into the collective intelligence of a group of people sharing your interests. Or you can create your own channel and invite others to assist you in picking feeds and keywords to monitor.
A Channel consists of two views. While the Incoming view shows the full stream, the Popular view is filtered using attention data from the realtime web and from users posting links, comments and likes.
Here’s a bundle of screenshots showing these examples of these two views (click to enlarge!):
One specific use of Twingly Channels will be to monitor all conversations around a brand, for internal use or to provide a social space for fans of the brand (click to enlarge!).
Not easily shown in a screenshot is the fact that everything in Twingly Channels is realtime: the incoming stream of new content, user comments and likes and the filtering into the memetracker view. We leverage our existing search engine for blogs and microblogs to bring new results into relevant channels based on the search terms channel owners have defined.
Some coverage on Twingly Channels so far:
Techcrunch:
Exclusive Screenshots Of Twingly Channels: A Personalized, Real-Time Memetracker
The Next Web:
Twingly Channels could be the FriendFeed beater we’ve been waiting for
UPDATED In German:
Netzwertig:
Gemeinsam gegen die Informationsüberflutung
Translated: United against the information overload
In Swedish:
Metro:
Twingly skapar ny mikrobloggtjänst
Ny Teknik:
Smartare sök när användarna hjälps åt
Translated: Smarter search when users help each other
DN.se:
Twingly från Linköping utmanar Google
Translated: Twingly from Linköping challenges Google
Anders Thoresson:
Twingly vill göra RSS-läsaren social
Translated: Twingly wants to make the RSS-reader social
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